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Originally Posted by beppe
Elfwreck obviously knows the aspects of this world, and as obviously, she did not find enough discussion material to stay in the thread longer than she did. This is clearly the shortcoming of my piloting the discussion. Well, it is a learning game.
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I've been reading; I'm not up to arguing much about "online relationship" not being the same as "romantic interests hidden from spouse."
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I learned that there are not only the aspects and the problems of who wants to start and develop a relation in Internet, but the problems and the reactions of Internet itself. This was totally unexpected.
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Almost any meta-discussion about the internet draws a large collection of tangential ideas about how-the-internet-works, and there's usually a collection of "you don't understand; MY method is the one that really works" reactions.
People--almost all of us--are prone to forgetting that the internet is
big. It was huge 8 years ago when I was active on several dozen Yahoogroups and a handful of Delphiforums and a couple of messageboards; it was huge five years before that when Usenet was popular at colleges; it certainly hasn't gotten any smaller.
Twitter's semi-seriously being considered as a possible backup to DNS, because enough computers are connected to it at any one time that it could, potentially, be used to re-create the entire structure of the internet if the big companies' servers go down.
The idea that all that tiny chatter is "not real relationships" is a limited and short-sighted view. They're not what a lot of us care about (I have a twitter account that I look at about every six months; I don't tweet), but obviously, a great many people enjoy the short comment exchanges. They're certainly a lot closer to real relationships than a lot of the talking I do at work.